A 10-year-old girl who said she was raped was kept behind bars for several hours aftertrying to report the crime. The incident occurred Monday in the Indian city of Bulandshahr,in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The girl and her mother approached a women’s police station toreport a rape, but the child was promptly put in a cell for several hours. India has beenconsumed by controversy in the wake of a student’s brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus last year. As authorities attempt to quell the public anger over the
A 10-year-old girl who said she was raped was kept behind bars for several hours aftertrying to report the crime. The incident occurred Monday in the Indian city of Bulandshahr,in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The girl and her mother approached a women’s police station toreport a rape, but the child was promptly put in a cell for several hours. India has beenconsumed by controversy in the wake of a student’s brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus last year. As authorities attempt to quell the public anger over the
rnThe New York Times/Michael Schwirtzrnrn Two trailers in this wealthy beach town stand as testament to an increasingly intractablernproblem for localities across the country: where to let sex offenders live after prison. About 40rnsex offenders in all are living in the trailers in Southampton within walking distance of arnretirement community and the other is in the parking lot of a prison. A bus service financedrnby the county transports the men between the trailers and pickup points, including train stations,rnin Suffolk. County Executive Steve Bellone, had vowed to remove the trailers
Authorities in the Mexican state of Jalisco say tests have revealed that a girl who gavebirth two weeks ago is between 12 and 13 years of age, not 9 as the parents had claimed. Thegirl was impregnated by her 44-year- old stepfather and he is under arrest.
